How to bind your pet kitty!
To attach yourself to an animal familiar you require three things.
Your Sigil
Colored Sands-Red, Yellow, and Blue
A thimble of your own blood. (to be filled during ritual)
Ritual Process. Ona full Moon at Midnight. Take the sands and draw out your sigil on the roof of your dwelling. (the symbol should be roughly the size of a small dinner table) Do this only by the light of the moon.
Get your familiar to the center of the sigil. Then paint your sigilon the animals chest, back or head with the thimbul of your blood, using all of it.
Spend 3 Significant chargs and make a magick roll.
-The Sigil- The sigil is very important to the ritual. Without it the familiar has nothing to tie itself to the caster with.
Your sigil can be anything as long as its personal to the caster.
First the adept must create the design they want to represent them.
Second they must craft it somehow. Traditionally this was in the form of; embroidered robes, or amulets. These days it exist as m\nearly anything. as long as it can be worn it can be a sigil.
Third- You must attune the newly crafted sigil to yourself. This is done by wearing it for a full week without removing it. Each night meditate on your daily experiences with the Sigil. At the end of that week spend a sig charge to seal the deal. Now it can be used in the familiar ritual.
-What the sigil does- They are a sort of magickal name tag for the adept. If the adept is attached to a familiar the familiar instinctively known the wereabouts of the caster. As well its the tie in that enables the caster to interact with the familiar.
Familiars- The calssic wizard accesory. familiars can sense the location of their master as long as they wear their sigil. Familiars can ‘speak’ to their masters. While its not actual language, and more of an understanding of what is meant. The anmal barks, chirps, or meows and the caster simple understands what is inteded.
Familiars can also act as middlemen. Want to send a message to someone you send the familiar. Concentrate with your sigil and sepnd a sig per every 30 minutes and you can see and speak as your familiar.
-I jsut thought having familiars in UA could be fun, and tossed this together. The charge costs listed I wasn’t to sure about, either to high or to low for some actions. So it’s up to the infdividual I s’pose. Hope someone enjoys it.
Comments, Suggestions… Nothing about sheep…
Chance
I also thought having a cat walk into someone’s room and start talking to them wouild be freaky too…
This idea seems very old-school occultism to me. It’s a cool thing for authentic thaumaturgists, but it might need a little updating to work with adepts.
Or I could be insane.
Well, maybe he wanted that “old school” feeling. Like everything old is new again.
But then again I could be seeing things that aren’t there.
Perhaps another option would be summoning a demon into some animal, after having bargained with the demon (or in order to without the risk of possession) with it to have it act as your servant.
Hmmm… demons put into animals lose most of their humanity. Perhaps a ritual that lets a demon keep some intelligence when put in an animal, but is subservient to the adept.
Anyway, isn’t this what Unspeakable Servants are for?
That mostly what I was trying to do there Tim. Modern Magick stems from the magick in the past right? So I figured having a ‘normal’ familiar. As opposed to an Unspeakable Servant would be possible.
I see the unspeakable servants as well.. what they are. Big nasty tentacle like thingies! Not the sorcerer’s Crow, or Cat. That and its also much easier to let the Tiger sleep by sending a cat to talk to your nemesis. Rather then a smelling dog corpse or something.
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Of coarse that last one is pretty cool!
Chance
DAMMIT! I was just reading over the Break Today outline. There ARE rules for Familiars in there.. shoot…
An interesting thought occured to me while reading this – can you do a proxy ritual with an animal? Make a cat your ritual proxy? If you are not worried about your cat breaking your own taboos, (this is not for pornomancers) then would there be any use in this? I’m not sure, but somehow I can see it being used by someone as yet another way to keep people off his trail.
*shrug* just a thought, don’t know if it’s a good one.
Hmmmm, interesting thought indeed Shawn. I llike it. No wonder cats think they rule the world, it’s maybe they can.
Good Idea Shawn. That kinda passed through my head while writing it, but i shrugged it off.
What the hell are you talking about???
Please ignore that post I’m an idiot….
(i.e Wrong entry)
Maybe you need a familiar to help you think?;)
Yep, there are rules for familiars — including roleplaying familiars as PCs — in Break Today. It’s pretty keen.
Good idea about familiars. However, I imagine forcing your pet to stay in the centre of the sigil while the ritual is completed would be problematic. The creature would either need to be well trained or sedated. Some animals would need to be the latter rather than the former (eg. cats and armadillos)
I drool in anticipation for Break Today..
Pets could be proxies. Anyone recall that Bunny Magician from Break Today?